The rainy season began. Most of the money went for drink so my shoes had holes in the soles and my raincoat was torn and old. In any steady downpour I got quite wet, and I mean wet-down...

red face Texas and age he’s at an L.A. racetrack

One morning a few days later I entered Lydia’s courtyard as she was walking in from the alley. She had been over to see her friend Tina who lived in an apartment house on the corner. Sh...

once starving in Philadelphia I had a small room it was evening going into night and I stood at my window on the 3rd floo…

By the time they called me to dinner I was able to pull up my clothing and walk to the breakfast nook where we ate all our meals except on Sunday. There were two pillows on my chair. I ...

sitting in a dark bedroom with 3 junkies… female. brown paper bags filled with trash are everywhere. is one-thirty in the afternoon.

she pulled her dress off over her head and I saw the panties indented somewhat into the crotch.

“You ought to try to be like Abe Morten… “Henry is dead on his ass,” said my fath… “Don’t you want to be happy, Henry?” as… “Stop feeling sorry for yourself,” said… “What’s going to become of you? How the…

the branches break, the birds fall, the… the whores stand straight, the bombs stack, evening, morning, night, peanutbutter,

they get up on their garage roof both of them 80 or 90 years old standing on the slant she wanting to fall really all the way

here I am in the ground my mouth open and

I walked off the job again and the police stopped me for running a red light at Serrano Ave. my mind was rather gone and I stood in a patch of leaves